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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model with a module that models the endogenous risk of...
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Climate change is a phenomenon beset with major uncertainties and researchers should include them in Integrated Assessment Models. However, including further dimensions in IAM models comes at a cost. In particular, it makes most of these models suffer from the curse of dimensionality. In this...
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Many predictions and conclusions in climate change literature have been made on the basis of theoretical analyses and quantitative models that assume exogenous technological change. One may wonder if those policy prescriptions hold in the more realistic case of endogenously evolving...
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The paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China, presenting historical data and scenarios generated … Economies Forum in July 2009. -- Climate Change ; China ; Energy Efficiency ; Energy and Development …
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The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in … energy use and in energy supply and to assess the possible contribution of China and India to a future international climate … emissions by 50% in 2050. -- Climate Change ; China ; India ; Energy Efficiency ; Energy and Development …
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tariffs on Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China's own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its … really open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other, the inclusion of … the carbon contents of imported products. Meanwhile, being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs …
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China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on … discusses China’s own efforts towards energy saving and pollutants cutting, the widespread use of renewable energy and … participation in clean development mechanism, and puts carbon reductions of China’s unilateral actions into perspective. Given that …
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As an important step towards building a "harmonious society" through "scientific development", China has incorporated … quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by about three quarters between 1980 and 2000, China has had limited … the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative its 2005 levels to …
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In international climate change negotiations, China’s role is an issue of perennial concern. In particular, the lack of … quantitative, absolute emissions commitments from China has been the focus. In line with changing domestic and international … contexts, China is recalibrating its stance and strategy. Its participation in international climate change negotiations has …
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